Mankind now has within its grasp the power to synthesize true artificial life, playing out Dr Frankenstein's dream in both cyberspace and the real world. In this book, Steve Grand, a leading exponent of artificial life, provides the first authoritative and comprehensive tour of the frontiers of this burgeoning new creation. He surveys what has been achieved so far and looks at future possibilities for generating autonomous, intelligent, even conscious living things. The fundamental questions he tackles range widely: what is life? What should the minds, brains and bodies of these new life forms be like? What philosophical guidelines and computational frameworks are necessary? At the heart of this brilliantly accessible and thought-provoking book is the author's unique imaginative vision - a vision based on his experience of making some of the most advanced artificial life currently available.

Creation: Life and How to Make It by Steve Grand

Computers & Technology

Stephen Grand

Computer Science

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Waking Raphael

FORBES, Leslie

When Claire Fleetwood, a young American forensic photographer, inherits a large house and garden in London's East End from relatives she never knew she had, she imagines it will be a slice of the English dream. But after the brutal murder of her best friend Sally Rivers, Claire learns that her inheritance involves more than she wanted or bargained for. Claire joins a scientific expedition led by her cousin Jack Ironstone, one of the men she suspects of being responsible for Sally's murder. Her journey leads from Jack the Ripper's Whitechapel to the Fleetwoods' murky roots in India's opium trade and the wild 'paradise' valleys of Tibet. It parallels a route taken during Britain's great 19th-century triangulation of the Himalayas by Claire's distant relative Magda Ironstone and a mysterious Indian botanist. As Claire reconstructs a triangular love affair she imagines took place, the contemporary story is overtaken to deadly effect by Magda's.

Fish, Blood & Bone

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Landscape Poets: Robert Burns

Burns, Robert. Edited By Karl Miller. Photographs By John Hedgecoe

Poetry

Masters of Dutch Genre Paintin

Arts & Photography

Royal Academy Of Arts

Sutton, Peter C.

History & Criticism

<p>TRADITIONAL ENGLISH GARDENS explores and celebrates English style in twenty-eight gardens in the care of the National Trust. The product of many influences - a passion for plants, a mild climate suitable for a wide range of species, the English love of the countryside - the gardens shown in the book strike a balance between the formal Italianate style and the Robisonian wilder garden; the ordered man-made garden combined with the idea of the natural Garden of Eden. From the genius of Hidcote Manor to the grandeur of Ham House, from the glory of Mottisfont Abbey to the enchantment of King Henry's Hunting Lodge, these English gardens are masterpieces of skillful planting and display an astonishing array of gardening ideas.</p>

Traditional English Gardens

Travel

Lennox-Boyd

Reference

Last Manchu :Henry Pu Yi (2nd

Kramer, Paul (Editor)

<p>Grant, Michael. The Rise of the Greeks. London, Guild Publishing, 1987. 16 cm x 24 cm. XVI, 391 pages. With 49 illustrations and 13 maps. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: The Early Greeks, Early Athens, Pisistratus and His Sons, The Peloponneses - Sparta &amp; Olympia, Central and Northern Greece - Thebes and the Boeotian League, The Eastern and Central Aegean, The West - Campania, The North - The Adriatic. Appendices include for example Relations with other peoples - Influenced by the Greeks; The Etruscan City-States, and Chronological Tables.</p>

The Rise of the Greeks

History

GRANT, MICHAEL

Ancient Civilizations

Sisters-in-law - The Palace Revolution: How Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson Changed the Face of Royalty

Biographies & Memoirs

COURTNEY, Nicholas

Leaders & Notable People

Trusts Law: Text and Materials

Moffat, Graham and Chesterman, Michael

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